Catholic Analysis: New Website Documents Kerry's Anti-Catholic Stands

Monday, September 13, 2004

New Website Documents Kerry's Anti-Catholic Stands

The Republican National Committee has launched a new website exposing John Kerry's stands on issues most important to Catholics. It is called "KerryWrongforCatholics.com." Here is the link. The site's documentation of Kerry's anti-Catholic stands is extensive and eye-opening. It is a site definitely worth e-mailing to your Catholic relatives, friends, and acquaintances.

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"catholic: 1: . . . broad in sympathies, tastes, or interests 2 cap . . . of, relating to, or forming the ancient undivided Christian church or a church claiming historical continuity from it; specif: ROMAN CATHOLIC"

--Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary (1990)

"There is much in Christianity which can be subjected to exact analysis. But the ultimate things are shrouded in the silent mysteries of God."

--Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-1988) (emphasis added; nominated as cardinal just before his death)

"In this context of a spirituality nourished by the practice of the evangelical counsels, I would like to invite all priests, during this Year dedicated to them, to welcome the new springtime which the Spirit is now bringing about in the Church, not least through the ecclesial movements and the new communities. “In his gifts the Spirit is multifaceted… He breathes where he wills. He does so unexpectedly, in unexpected places, and in ways previously unheard of… but he also shows us that he works with a view to the one body and in the unity of the one body”. In this regard, the statement of the Decree Presbyterorum Ordinis continues to be timely: “While testing the spirits to discover if they be of God, priests must discover with faith, recognize with joy and foster diligently the many and varied charismatic gifts of the laity, whether these be of a humble or more exalted kind”. These gifts, which awaken in many people the desire for a deeper spiritual life, can benefit not only the lay faithful but the clergy as well. The communion between ordained and charismatic ministries can provide “a helpful impulse to a renewed commitment by the Church in proclaiming and bearing witness to the Gospel of hope and charity in every corner of the world”. I would also like to add, echoing the Apostolic Exhortation Pastores Dabo Vobis of Pope John Paul II, that the ordained ministry has a radical “communitarian form” and can be exercised only in the communion of priests with their Bishop. This communion between priests and their Bishop, grounded in the sacrament of Holy Orders and made manifest in Eucharistic concelebration, needs to be translated into various concrete expressions of an effective and affective priestly fraternity. Only thus will priests be able to live fully the gift of celibacy and build thriving Christian communities in which the miracles which accompanied the first preaching of the Gospel can be repeated."

---Benedict XVI, Letter to All Priests Proclaiming a Year for Priests, June 16, 2009 (emphasis added)

"The institutional and charismatic aspects are co-essential as it were to the Church's constitution. They contribute, although differently, to the life, renewal and sanctification of God's People. It is from this providential rediscovery of the Church's charismatic dimension that, before and after the Council, a remarkable pattern of growth has been established."

---John Paul the Great, Pentecost Address, 1998 (emphasis added)

"Since charisms, in the widest sense, are simply concretizations of the life of grace, a Church without charisms could only be a Church without grace. Such a Church would be a false sign; it would betoken the presence of what is absent; it would be a pseudosacrament, and for this reason it would not be truly Church."

---Avery Cardinal Dulles, 1982 (before he was made a cardinal)

"How much our world needs a renewed outpouring of the Holy Spirit!"

--Pope Benedict XVI (upon arrival at WYD 2008, July 14, 2008)

"Whatever their character - sometimes it is extraordinary, such as the gift of miracles or of tongues - charisms are oriented toward sanctifying grace and are intended for the common good of the Church. They are at the service of charity which builds up the Church [citing 1 Cor. 12]."

--Catechism of the Catholic Church 2003 (quoted in part; emphasis added)

"But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; . . . . so that no human being might boast in the presence of God."

--St. Paul, 1 Corinthians 1:27, 29 (ESV)

"I also urge them [Christians] to pay special attention to the Cardinal's [Suenens'] double plea, which deserves the greatest consideration: on the one hand, his appeal to those responsible for the ecclesial ministry--from parish priests to bishops--not to let the [Charismatic] Renewal pass them by but to welcome it fully; and on the other, his appeal to the members of the [Charismatic] Renewal to cherish and maintain their link with the whole Church and with the charisms of her pastors."

--Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, 1982

"I then came into contact also with the reality of the Charismatic Renewal. In those years I had close contacts with a professor in Paderborn, Heribert Mühlen, who was a great enthusiast of this movement, since he himself had rediscovered the joy of the priesthood in it. Thus I had the joy and the grace, I would say, of seeing young Christians touched by the power of the Holy Spirit, of seeing that in a troublesome time for the Church, at a moment when people were speaking of a 'winter in the Church,' the Holy Spirit was creating a new springtime and that the joy of being Christian was being reawakened in young people, the joy of being Catholic, of living in the Church, the living Body of Christ, the people of God on pilgrimage."

--Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, 1999 (emphasis added)

"Four hundred years is far too young an age for the Catholic liturgy--because in fact it reaches right back to Christ and the apostles and has come down to us from that time in a single, constant process. The Missal can no more be mummified than the Church herself."

--Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, The Feast of Faith (published 1981 & 1986; emphasis added)

"The question . . . is a spiritual one and the solution is always the same: in so far as we have allowed it to be lost, we must rediscover the spirit of Christianity. In order to do so we must be plunged once more into its well-springs, and above all in the Gospel. The Gospel which the Church unvaryingly offers us is enough for us. Only, always new, it always needs to be rediscovered."

--Henri de Lubac (1896-1991; made cardinal in 1983)

"The charismatic movement is obviously God's answer to Pope John XXIII's prayer for a new Pentecost. Popes Paul VI and John Paul II both blessed it but said that it will fulfill its purpose only when, like the early liturgical movement, it ceases to have a separate identity of its own and is absorbed into the whole Church. In other words, every Catholic should be a charismatic, baptized in the Spirit, empowered like the apostles."

--Catholic apologist and philosopher Peter Kreeft (1988)

"For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery."

--St. Paul, Galatians 5:1 (ESV)

"We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God's word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to everyone's conscience in the sight of God."

--St. Paul, 2 Corinthians 4:2b (ESV)

“Be who you are and be that well.”

--St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622)

"For the reader who lacks an upright intention, the rectitude of the writer is hard to find."

-- St. Josemaría Escrivá (1902-1975)

"Si alguna cosa dijera que no vaya conforme a lo que tiene la santa Iglesia católica romana, será por ignorancia y no por malicia" ("If any thing I might say does not conform to what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be because of ignorance and not because of malice.")

--St. Teresa of Jesus (1515-1582), Prologue, para. 4, Interior Castle

"Needless to say, in order to experience full communion, the priests of the communities adhering to the former usage [the Traditional Latin Mass] cannot, as a matter of principle, exclude celebrating according to the new books. The total exclusion of the new rite [the post-Vatican II Mass] would not in fact be consistent with the recognition of its value and holiness."

--Pope Benedict XVI, Letter, July 7, 2007

"[I]l est clair que la liturgie renouvelée est la liturgie ordinaire de notre temps.”/"It is clear that the renewed liturgy is the ordinary liturgy of our times."

--Pope Benedict XVI, September 12, 2008 (emphasis added)

"renew: to give new spiritual strength to"

--Webster's New World College Dictionary (1997)

“Under the cover of a campaign to defend a certain type of liturgy, there is a radical critique of the [Second] Vatican Council, even outright rejection of some of its declarations.”

--Cardinal Archbishop Andre Vingt-Trois of Paris, France, in 2006 (this blogger also has noticed this phenomenon).

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